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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

Volume 6 Specific Topics in Landslide Science and Applications

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Editors:
  1. Ċ½eljko Arbanas

    1. Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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  2. Peter T. Bobrowsky

    1. Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

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  3. Kazuo Konagai

    1. International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

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  4. Kyoji Sassa

    1. International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan

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  5. Kaoru Takara

    1. Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (Shishu-kan), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • Provides detailed information on the Kyoto2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk (KS2020), a long-term and global framework for the landslide community to develop the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025
  • Focuses on landslide-induced-tsunamis and landslide hazard assessment at UNESCO designated sites (world heritage, global geopark and bioreserve)
  • Shows latest progress of more than 50 International Programme on Landslide Projects worldwide and 20 World Centre's of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Impact of Large Ground Deformations Near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil-Infrastructures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Recent Earthquakes that Hit Areas Covered and/or Underlain by Pyroclastic Matters and Their Impacts on Lifelines

      • Kazuo Konagai, Alex K. Tang, John M. Eidinger
      Pages 3-18

    3. Landslides in Recent Earthquakes and Damage to Lifelines

      • Kazuo Konagai
      Pages 19-26

    4. Lessons Learned—Landslide Induced Lifelines Disasters from Past Earthquakess

      • Alex K. Tang
      Pages 27-34

    5. Lessons from Recent Geo-Disasters in Hokkaido Under Earthquake

      • Shima Kawamura
      Pages 35-43

    6. Relation Between Horizontal Direction of Crustal Deformation Surveyed on the Control Points and Area Ratio of the Slope Failures Triggered by the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake (Mj 7.3)

      • Hiroshi P. Sato, Hiroshi Une
      Pages 45-54

    7. Seismic Performance of Buried Pipelines Against Large Ground Deformation of Strike-Slip Faults

      • Farzad Talebi, Junji Kiyono
      Pages 55-60

    8. Reconstruction Strategies for Mw 7.8 Earthquake-Induced Landslide-Affected Settlements in Nepal

      • Tara Nidhi Bhattarai, Dhruba Prasad Sharma, Lekh Prasad Bhatta
      Pages 61-66

    9. State of Nuclear Power Plant Risk Assessment for Ground Deformation with Seismic Faulting

      • Katsumi Ebisawa, Toshiaki Sakai, Futoshi Tanaka, Ryusuke Haraguchi, Yoshinori Mihara, Yuji Nikaido
      Pages 67-73

    10. Relationship Between Arias Intensity and the Earthquake-Induced Displacements of Slopes

      • Ching Hung, Chih-Hsuan Liu, Hsuan-Ho Wang
      Pages 75-82

  3. Recent Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Water Exfiltration from Bedrock: A Drastic Landslide Triggering Mechanism

      • Amin Askarinejad, Sarah M. Springman
      Pages 85-99

    3. Controls on Landslide Size: Insights from Field Survey Data

      • Haijun Qiu, Yifei Cui, Dongdong Yang, Sheng Hu, Yanqian Pei, Shuyue Ma
      Pages 101-119

    4. Geologic and Hydrologic Investigations on Slope Failures Triggered by Extreme Rainfall on Izu Oshima Island, Japan

      • Ikuo Towhata, Takeshi Akima, Satoshi Goto, Shigeru Goto, Junya Tanaka, Shogo Aoyama
      Pages 121-130

    5. Lessons from Recent Geo-Disasters in Hokkaido Under Heavy Rainfall

      • Tatsuya Ishikawa
      Pages 131-139

    6. Lessons from Geo-Disasters Caused by Heavy Rainfall in Recent Years in Kyushu Island, Japan

      • Noriyuki Yasufuku, Adel Alowiasy
      Pages 141-147

    7. Comparison of Relationship Between Debris-Flow Volume and Peak Discharge in Different Regions

      • Tao Wang, Mingfeng Deng
      Pages 149-154

    8. Investigation of Internal Erosion of Wide Grading Loose Soil—A Micromechanics-Based Study

      • Yifei Cui, Yanzhou Yin, Chaoxu Guo
      Pages 155-161

    9. Formation Mechanism and Stability of the Instable Block Formed in Xinmo Landsilde

      • Bingli Hu, Lijun Su, Qijun Xie, Fangwei Yu, Chonglei Zhang
      Pages 163-168
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About this book

This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the following parts:


• Impact of Large Ground Deformations near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil Infrastructures
• Recent Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science
• Earth Observation and Machine Learning in Landslide Science
• General Landslide Studies


Professor Ċ½eljko Arbanas is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor of Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He is the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides.


Professor Peter Bobrowsky is the President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of GeologicalSurvey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.


Professor Kazuo Konagai is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Principal Researcher at the ICL Headquarters. He serves as the Secretary-General of the Fifth World Landslide Forum.


Professor Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.


Professor Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Ċ½eljko Arbanas

  • Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

  • International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

    Kazuo Konagai

  • International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

  • Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (Shishu-kan), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Kaoru Takara

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 6 Specific Topics in Landslide Science and Applications

  • Editors: Ċ½eljko Arbanas, Peter T. Bobrowsky, Kazuo Konagai, Kyoji Sassa, Kaoru Takara

  • Series Title: ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60713-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60712-8Published: 21 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60715-9Published: 21 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60713-5Published: 20 December 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-1894

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-1908

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 407

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 424 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy

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